nope, wasnt a counter battery... you can clearly see the blast out of the muzzle of the mortar one frame before the explosion... im guessing it was a spiked round.
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore Roosevelt
MACV\SOG Spike Teams were doing this back in the 60's as part of their operations against the Ho Chi Minh trail - putting boobytrapped mortar rounds in NVA weapons caches.
Obviously it's back in fashion amongst the special operations community
All my life I been in the dog house
I guess that just where I belong
That just the way the dice roll
Do my dog house song
Flintlock Tom wrote:I always wonder how these videos make it to YouTube.
Apparently the camera, and cameraman, survived, and he decided to post it to YouTube? To what purpose?
camera found at the site after US troops come to investigate the area that the mortar was fired from?
“I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform.” - Norman Thomas, a six time candidate for president for the Socialist Party, 1944
Gotta love them splodeydopes with defective mortars...
